Trump Says He’ll Declare the Strait of Hormuz as ‘US Territory’

President Donald Trump spoke during a campaign rally on Long Island on Friday and declared that he will soon claim the Strait of Hormuz as “U.S. territory.”

Trump spoke in Nassau County to boost Republicans on the ballot in New York and, after discussing the high cost of living and rising gas prices, turned to boasting about what he sees as his success in the war with Iran.

“And after we finish defeating Iran, which is being very badly defeated—pretty soon I’ll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States. Yeah, essentially, that’s what it is. We have the blockade—no ships get through unless we want them to. And how about Venezuela? Venezuela was a one-day war, and now we work great with them. We’ve taken in millions and millions of barrels of oil,” Trump said, adding:

But we’re doing really good—we’re doing good in every way. You know, I built the military, and now I used it a little bit more than I wanted to, frankly, but that’s okay, because we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. Do we agree? Can’t let it. So most things are down. And I had—you know, before I started that, I had to make a journey. I said to my guys—I said to Howard, Scott, Marco—they’re all fantastic, what a great group we have. But I said, ‘Fellas, we just had the best month ever, anyone’s ever had as president.

Watch the clip above via Fox News.

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